Long COVID Gene Variants: A Step Toward a Diagnostic Test?
A large-scale global study has identified genetic variants that are risk factors for long COVID, a discovery that helps researchers better understand the biological systems involving the disease and one small, early step toward the elusive goal of developing a long COVID diagnostic test.
Healthcare workers should honor their oaths and mask up around patients, particularly during surges. Cancer patients are especially at risk, and it's ridiculous that they cannot get safe care from HCWs.
A new STUDY finds some cancer patients are at higher risk of #COVID19 infection or more severe illness. "Despite overall low rates of infection associated with lower respiratory disease, certain higher‐risk cancer patients may benefit from further protective measures."
We seem to be entering the COVID-19 summer wave. Emergency department visits have doubled over the past month (as percent of total visits). Remember that with ED visits, the most recent data reflects infections that occurred ~2 weeks ago; one week to gather the data, and one week for the illness to become sever enough to prompt an ED visit.
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/activity-levels.html
#georgia #covid19
2025-July-25 Friday
163 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,230,294 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
Over five years after the #COVID19 outbreak, #Honduras has reinstated mandatory #mask wearing in public spaces amid a spike in respiratory #illnesses and as a variant of the #virus spreads through the Central American country: www.reuters.com/business/hea... #health #masks
Honduras mandates face masks a...
#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #TWiV #ThisWeekInVirology #DanielGriffin #VincentRacaniello #MASA #MakeAmericaSaneAgain #infectiousdiseases #vaccinate #vaccines
TWIV#1238 clinical update week 26. Jul 2025
Dr. Griffin's bowtie of today: Hepatitis B
Today's quote: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewnh4LJmcaI
#H5N1 #avianflu #birdflu #influenza #pertussis #measles #RSV #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #LongCovid #NB181
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus
July 25, 2025. WastewaterSCAN Dashboard
#COVID19
Take precautions! 
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This week's Pandemics in BC blog post:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/07/25/2025-07-26-general/
#covid19bc #covid #covid19 #mpox #h5n1 #measles
Säädytön
Kun sain tämän kirjan, olin ensin, että mitä hemmettiä olen tilannut, jonkin ulkomaisen romanttisen hömpän? Vaan kun aloin tarkemmin ottaa tilanteen haltuun, niin olin heti ihan innoissani. Ehei, tämä on suomalaisen naisen korona-ajan tarina, joka puree!
Henrika de Kermadec kertoo heti kättelyssä, että ”Tämä on tosielämän satu” ja sitten paljon muuta, etenkin sitä, että kertoo kaiken niin kuin sen itse on kokenut ja muistanut. Kenestäkään ei kerrota omilla […]
July 25, 2025. Current Epidemic Growth Status (Based on Rt) for States and Territories Last updated 7/22/2025.
{https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/rt-estimates.html} OH-OH, infections up!
#COVID19 TAKE PRECAUTIONS!
https://www.europesays.com/fr/274265/ la pandémie de Covid-19 n’a pas eu d’impact durable en France #2025 #Actualités #anxieux #Covid19 #d’impact #EU #europe #EuropeanUnion #FR #France #n’a #News #pandémie #pas #RépubliqueFrançaise #Santé #troubles #UE #UnionEuropéenne
for the minimizers crowing on about no summer surge, Covid is definitely over, I give you Spain - setting a new wastewater record
COVID-19 Is Rising Again. Here’s What to Know
The CDC reports that cases of COVID-19 are increasing in nine states and likely growing in another 16. ...the CDC no longer conducts rigorous surveillance of cases based ... lab tests. Fewer people are also getting tested.... new monitoring systems that track viruses in wastewater confirm the rise.
At the NY college I currently attend, they have been having High School seniors touring daily this week. Almost ALL of them were carrying masks and wearing them indoors.
Multiple groups, many different schools.
With Covid on the slow rise in NY for the anticipated summer wave, my Public Health pride burst a button.
Why is it so hard for some people not to take such a simple precaution?
Weekly update on #COVID19 risks in the US:
This summer's surge is off to a slow and leisurely start, on average, in the US. However, risks are quite varied. Right now, Louisiana, Florida, and Hawaii have High or Very High viral activity. Five more states have moderate viral activity. Even within states, risks vary, so I provide links you can use to evaluate the situation in your locale. Also included are recent studies on COVID's impact on health and wellbeing.
With the Summer Covid wave starting in NY, this will just make things harder:
COVID paid sick leave ending in NY. What that means for you
Doctor who handed out vaccine, mask exemptions has appeal dismissed
By Jean Bell
A Victorian doctor who wrote up nearly 200 false exemptions in one week during the height of the pandemic has had his appeal against his suspension dismissed.
#COVID19 Can Cause Alzheimer's-Like Plaques in Eyes And Brain: ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/covid-can-cause-alzheimers-like-plaques-in-eyes-and-brain
